The Journal Sentinel is reporting that 300 baby mink were stolen from a farm in Sheboygan County. The contentious mink farming industry has been subject to activists that release mink into the wild, but that doesn’t seem to be the case here, officials said.
Wisconsin’s mink farming industry has deep roots in the state, ones that we profiled in our December issue with “The Velvet Underground.”
Wisconsin’s mink-farming roots go back to the frontier days and are intertwined with other industries (meat packing, for example), similar to other mink pelt-producing states such as Utah and Idaho. “Wisconsin’s heritage with meat manufacturing creates a lot of scraps that are not fit for human consumption,” [Michael] Whelan says. But they’re perfect for feed.
